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Comment by macintux

3 days ago

Side note, but I have a hard time thinking of Seveneves in halves; isn't it 3 distinct parts?

Mainly I remember skimming the middle third because it felt like such a drag.

You could cleanly think about it in three parts, but the time jump in the middle which involves a whole new set of characters is another way to split it.

Yes the book itself is broken into 3 parts but if you're looking at it from a scientific plausibility scale parts 1 & 2 are in the same vicinity of that scale where part 3 jumps a good ways into more traditional scifi levels of plausibility.